Open Studio Pics

Well it was a great week opening my studio Monday – Saturday last week. Here’s some pics I took of my display…



New magnets! These were very popular, I only have a few left now to put in my store {coming soon}.





This is the wall displaying my paintings, drawings and ACEO originals.



I’m working on an original painting for the AWOL Square foot exhibition in Toronto, Canada right now. Which is super exciting and my first exhibition abroad, if you attend please look out for my art!

I’ll be listing the new magnets in the shop soon and I am working on other new things too, so keep coming back.

Blessings



xxx

Christmas Open Studio

I’ve been a little quiet over here the past few weeks because I’ve been preparing for my Christmas Open Studio, which happened on Saturday.

It was a huge success and I met lot’s of new people, thank you to all those who came along. This year I made double the amount of goodies to last Christmas and it was exciting to see what people wanted this year.

As you can see from the photos there are lot’s of new things I haven’t yet added to the shop. I’ll be updating that this week and next so keep your eyes out

Hubby made me some lovely mini easels to display my new pencil illustrations on and they worked perfectly. My latest drawing with the pink flowers on above is my favourite so far, it came out way better than I expected. I can’t wait to experiment more with little touches of colour.

Hope you had a lovely weekend, we have our Christmas tree and lights up now, so exciting.

Blessings to all,

xxx

Time for Change…

Here I am in my studio, wearing my new money belt I made out of a vintage pillowcase. It was so much fun, pity you can’t see the lovely vintage buttons I sewed on the side. Pink, olive green and cream ones.

So many changes happening right now for me and all good ones where my art business is concerned. I feel like my focus is getting clearer and my inspiration is being refined and increasing which is so much fun!

I’ve been loving making these new ink illustrated cards and have some new ones for you to check out…

 

Along with new creations, I’ve been thinking a lot about where I see my business going and how I can refine things to reflect where I want to take things.

Communication has been something I’ve been wrestling with for a long time. I’ve always been focused on connecting with my customers in a meaningful and inspiring way. Being in business for yourself is by no means easy and it’s been very easy to fall into the trap of following the crowd when it comes to social media. I’ve had my Facebook account for a long time but had been considering leaving for many months. With such a sea of information coming at you everyday it’s just brain numbing at times to be honest. I needed to find a better way for me.

So today I deleted my Facebook account. It’s time for me to get back to communicating with you in other ways, including being more active here. I’m still on Twitter but I mostly want to share things with you via this blog and my email list where you can share with me too in the comments and I think it’ll be so much better.

Please don’t think I’m judging people who do use Facebook, it’s just not for me anymore and I hope you will still stop by and enjoy chatting with me here, or email etc.

I’m excited to proceed and also to have far more time to create things for you!!

Many Blessings,

xxx

A Tour of My Open Studio…

So there are some inquisitive little bunnies out there who would like to see what might go on at one of my open studios, especially ones that live just too far away to hop over the pond for a visit, so here you go, come in and enjoy…

I’ll be hosting another open studio probably in October so I do hope those of you who don’t live far will be able to come and enjoy some cute art and cake with me

Blessings, and a huge thank you to those who did come!!

xxx

Open Studio Excitement!

Hey there, I’m busy getting ready for my Open Studio on Saturday Are you coming?

If you can’t make it you can always buy online from either Etsy or my website.

Here’s a peek a what is available, there are many more fun items and originals too! I’m really looking forward to seeing you and enjoying some chatter and cake too

Feel free to bring your friends along too, you can rsvp here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=222152377809493

I’ll be back to painting next week.

xxx

P.S If you still haven’t completed my quick survey you can here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y9RWZSL thanks x

Creative in the garden

 

Last September I planted these beauties, it’s the first year we’ve had flowers in our back garden. Very excited to see these come up and what stunning colours they are.

 

This is the greenhouse that Hubby built for me (yes he is pretty creative too ) I’d sown some Marigold and Geranium seeds and they did so well, oh yes and Morning Glories too. They were all ready to come out the seed trays and into their own pots. So today I was taking them all out and potting up. I also then sowed more Geraniums (because the first packet had very little in and I want to fill up my window boxes with them this Summer) and I sowed Cosmos too, they are so easy to grow and have a beautiful show in Summer.

So now the greenhouse is full to bursting of plants, about 100 all told wow!

Can’t wait to be able to plant these in the garden! I always grow too many on purpose, 1) because you never know how many will turn out and 2) I LOVE to give plants away! Makes me smile on the inside and blesses others too.

So that’s what I’ve been up to today in the garden, the Open Studio wasn’t a success I guess this gorgeous weather had people elsewhere but hey ho, the good news is I get to put the goodies in my Etsy shop for you to purchase instead!

I’m off to get editing pics and listing, be on the look out!

xxx

P.S The journal project is now underway, come and join us!

New Art Pendant Necklaces

    

On Saturday I’ll be having my Spring Open Studio where I invite friends and family (and their friends) over to my home studio for a browse followed by tea and cake.

I usually run these at Christmas time and they are always a success, so I decided to run them throughout the year as well.

For this one I wanted to create some new fun products featuring my art without a ton of printing and putting together. Something special and handmade.

These necklaces were way more fun to make than I thought they would be and they turned out way better than I thought they would too. I am so pleased with them!!

They have an original painting on each side, so are a two in one necklace which is pretty cool. I have antique copper square frames, silver squares and silver long rectangles currently available. They come on either a brown or pink (of course) ribbon with a clasp fixing at the back.

These will be available for sale from Saturday at the open studio and then I will be offering them as commissions and possibly in the shop. I’m not sure how many I’ll make once this first batch is sold so make sure you get one while they are available.

This week I’m working on more goodies for Saturday and I recorded the video for The Journal Project today, so look out for that on the blog tomorrow.

Have a great day!

xxx